Before people come in to claim that Vrakthris is lying to us, let’s use a little common sense here. There’s tons of former employees (and some current ones to be honest) who are currently slamming Blizzard for a number of reasons. Why haven’t they utilized “allowing bots to run rampant” or “being forced to lie about banning bots” as ammunition in their social media quest to hold their company accountable?
Of all the things these employees have said, I haven’t seen a single mention of that. Maybe it’s because what Vrakthris is saying is true? Little common sense, please.
Why aren’t the former employees who are slamming the company saying anything about bots? These forums are claiming the exact opposite of Blizzard employees, one of these claims is wrong. If the claims by Blizzard employees are lies, why aren’t the former employees who are going after their former employer saying anything about bots?
They’ve went after Blizzard for everything under the sun. Find me the statements where they claim to be forced to lie to their playerbase about the botting situation.
I just find it so comical. Believe the employees when they’re vilifying their company but if those same employees correct a commonly believed narrative about bots, oh no, those are just lies, right? They’re lying about this but telling the truth about everything else, makes perfect sense.
Are you saying that you honestly believe every boosted 60 rogue bot in ramparts is sitting on a stolen account? Jimmy quit the game and conveniently didn’t use his own boost?
No. Why bother. These are running on brand new accounts and boosts, which conveniently come bundled with a month of sub time. It makes gold until reported and allegedly banned, which absolutely benefits the blues.
Because the farmers will just make a new account and buy a boost on it. Again and again.
The accusation, was not putting a stop to the entire program. For good.
Because they haven’t. And won’t.
In both cases, dealing with fraudulent charges costs the company money.
The boosts are being purchased with stolen credit cards because these botting operations don’t spend their own money. Blizzard then has to deal with chargebacks.
If you don’t believe these Blizzard statements on botting, then why aren’t the current and former employees who are shaming the executives and penny pinchers at Blizzard also calling them out for forcing their CS employees to lie about this?
Maybe because CS employees like Vrakthris are telling the truth?
No. Because some of the bots I have been reporting for months are still there to this day. I remember the names.
So it becomes a little hard to believe the “wow thanks so much for your help, we took action” notes in my mailbox.
Either way, it’s an epidemic and as others have pointed out, oddly not an issue on pservers…
The bot gets deleted and immediately recreated and boosted? Like, I can’t reconcile the fact that dozens and dozens of employees have been sharing all the crap that went on at Blizzard but I didn’t see a single thing about being forced to lie and mislead the community about the botting situation.
If you can give me a good reason as to why not a single employee has made a disparaging statement about this, please explain. In one post people are saying Blizzard doesn’t ban bots because they like the sub money and a few posts later people are now claiming that when Blizzard does ban bots, it’s because they like the boost money that bots provide them with.
The narrative is constantly changing and I find it just bizarre. Like I stumbled into a den of conspiracy theorists.
Because the people that left the company care about what happened to themselves? Not bots…of all things.
Ongoing problem exists and communication is abysmal. Even what you linked is three years old.
By all means, you give me a believable reason why it isn’t properly dealt with.
I more wonder if they even have the manpower left at this point.
Because the situation is more complicated than the extremely biased, average forum goer can comprehend with the information they’ve been given. The default stance when people here can’t understand something seems to be that Blizzard must be lying to them.
It’s the most detailed post is why I linked it. If you pay any attention to the CS forum, they’re constantly addressing this:
